Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-03-12
Assaying done at Booth 4 Webster's.


If you want a good partner get the
Farmers Daughter.
Larry Council, the popular Deadwood
telegraph operator has recently been
admitted to the bar.
The greatest variety ofteas and tobac-
cos in the Hills at Cochran's.
Mrs. J. S. White has been rs-employ-
ed for a short term as teacher OF the
public school at Hermosa.
Assaying done at Booth & Webster's
The Woman's suffrage bill was de-
feated in the lower house OF the terri
torial legislature on the 9Th.
The Farmers Daughter is a cook
stove, the best stove made. 1t is sold at
j. Cochran's.
The Cheyenne railroad bridge has
been repaired; regular trains having
been run over it since the 9Th.
Cochran's for groceries and hardware,
the cheapest house in the Hills, and tn
best goods in the market.
G. w. Smith Of this place received a
telegram on Thursday, announcing the
death Of his brother, j. j. Smith, at
Phoenix, Rhode Island, on the 9th inst.
John r. Whiteside Of Vermillion, Da-
kota, has been named by the president
for register Of the land Office at Dead
wood to succeed Judge Luse, who long
since resigned.
The Old Folks concert, billed for
Tuesday night at the court house pre-
sents many novel and attractive feat
ures, which, in connection with the
laudable object in Jew, will doubtless
be extensively ~patfonized.
For fresh candy, genuine Havana
cigars, all kinds of pipes, go to Cochran's
where they sell cheap.
The Iron Hill company has shipped
thus far 81 carloads of base bullion from
this city, and there is nearly another
carload ready. There were in these 81
carloads 400 bars.-Times.
Rapid City proposes to erect immedia-
tely a theatre building, the plans of
which have been perfected. The site
selected is in the immediate vicinity of
the Hotel Harvey on 9TH street.
The Pilot announces the fact of the
members Of the Masonic fraternity of
Hermosa having under serious contem-
pietion the erection Of q Masonic
temple, and also that the Congregational
church society have earnest intentions
Of building a church in the near future.
A numerously signed petition, re-
questing the approval of the Hot
Springs soldiers home bill, was for
warded to Governor Church from this
place on Monday. Also y resolution
passed by the Grand Army post Of this
city was forwarded with a similar OBJ
ject in view.
With an old folks concert at the Con-
gregational church, a Grand Army re-
hearsal at Athens Hall, an open air
concert by the Custer Minstrels, and a
birthday party on the side, there was
no valid reason why the average Gus
terite should not have been amply
amused on Tuesday night.
The steel rails recently shipped in for
the Homestake company are reported
by the Deadwood Pioneer, as being in
tended for replacing the old iron ones
which have been doing service ever
since the road was built, and not for the
purpose of the further extension of the
track as originally reported by Rapid
papers.
The business men of Douglas have
subscribed literally toward securing a
water supply bymean of an artesian well.
Custer, fortunately can obtain an I'M
limited supply of the article, which for
purity and excellence Of quality is un-
surpassed in any country, by sinking
ordinary wells to a depth of from ten to
fifty feet.
Among the number of local contribu-
tions to the CHRONICLE received recent
ly, which for various reasons we have
been compelled to decline the publica-
ton of, was IN lode to Spring" which
on account of it's extreme length, and
other reasons which we do not deem
necessary to state, is. with others, held
subject to the order of the contributors,
whose real names have, in a majority Of
instances, been strangely withheld.
ELECTROMAGNETIC an Indian
who had been in the Deadwood Jail for
the past eighteen months under the
charge of having murdered another
scalp-liftsr at Pine Ridge Indian agency,
was lately discharged from custody by
the court on the ground that his case
was ignored by the grand jury. This
wavuarI son If tho uestern u,;lda 10